Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-09
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska ,JOttiuus,

Nebraska Jottings.
The Odd Fellows of Norfolk dedicated
their new hall with dance.
Chadron has organized company to
work the marble quarries at Buffalo
Gap.
The telephone exchange at Norfolk
failed to connect with sufficient support,
and is hung up for the present.
The money sharks of Norden are gath
ering up the fat of the land. Ten per
cent month is the usual rate on loans.
The Beatrice street car drivers dis
play an unusual amount of sand just
now, and prevent their vehicles slipping
up on their patrons.
Next year will be leap year and eli
gibie but lonesome girls should prepare
| by rigorous exercise to jump at the first
opportunity and get into the union.
Eminent foreign authorities have de-
cidcd that the smallest bore is the most
| effective. This will put the Sioux County
Gimlet on the high road to usefulness
and profit.
A syndicate of farmers near Indianola
smashed the fuel famine by shipping in
| five car loads of coal for their own use.
| The local dealers were unable to meet
| the demand.
Evidences of progressive civilization
are continually multiplying, Columbus
is threatened with a second brass band.
An application for Nebraska City's ex-
| hausted instruments is proposed.
PlattsmOuth has two sets of fair Of
| ficers with but single track. 1t is pro-
| posed to hitch both to sulkies and send
/ them over the course with ten-foot
4 CAD. The contest will be for blood.
The board of education of Fremont
| propose to strike a blow at the liberties
of the young by abolishing the school
recess, making the session continuous.
| The flow of carved epitaphs and auto
| graphs on the premises will be dimin-
ished if not entirely wiped out.
Iowa Items.
The Franz and Seller breweries in
Sioux City have been abandoned.
| A bridge company having capital
stock of $500, 900 has been formed at
| Muscatine.
| j. M. Bunker, farmer, was killed
Monday by the explosion of a boiler in
| Abbott's elevator at Zearling.
A piece OF property, in which was
eighty acres, was sold at tax sale in
Davenport this week, the taxes amount
ing to $1,000.
| Manchester has reason to be proud of
its record as n dairy point. During the
month of November Manchester shipped
| IS, ,425 pounds of butter and for another
item sent out 3,l74 dozen eggs.
Nathan Sanders, aged oighty-eight,
died Sunday morning., and his wife,
aged eighty four, followed him Tuesday
morning, both dying of old age, at Grim
nell. The old couple were pioneers
there and widely respected.
| A singular accident occurred at
Clarinda the other day. A man fell
under a moving freight train and two
wheels passed directly over his thigh,
| yet no bones were broken and the only
injury was severe bruise and some
laceration. The thigh was fleshy and
the fat formed "A cushion protection for
the bone. He was only laid up few
days by the accident.
Sioux Falls has business club 100
strong.
The hotels of Fargo threaten to close
if prohibition is enforced.
The Norwegian normal school will be
| planted at Sioux Falls if q bonus Of
900 is raised.
The Deadwood Pioneer is now con-
trolled by stock company. Mavericks
are excluded from the staff.
Peter Freidland, a miner of Terraville,
| fell into an open cut while engaged in
mining near that place Saturday, caus-
ing Instant death.
A vein of coal sixteen feet thick has
been found at WhitewOod, twelve feet
below the surface, and seventy feet be-
low another vein more than three times
as thick. The coal is said to be as good
as any in the country.
Wyoming.
The Cheyenne & Northern will reach
Douglas on or before July /, 1888.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
foundation Of hotel in Laramie.
| laundering assessments have knocked
Carbon county out OF $l7 900 in taxes.
The capital stock of the Laramie
Glaasworks company has been blown up
to S75, 900.
Several ranchmen along the Big Lar
annie river are going out OF the cattle
business this fall and announce that they
will devote their time and energies in
future TO sheep and wool raising.
The regular Burlington celebration
in Cheyenne is looked for the first day
of the year. Excursion trains will be
run from neighboring towns. An ample
supply of red fire will decorate the oc-
| casiOn.
The proprietor OF the Inter-Ocean
| hotel in Cheyenne claims that the
| Pacific railroad nvestigating commits
sion has failed to pay board bill of $40,
The bill has been sent 10 Washington
for collection.
A flowing we'll OF petroleum has been
| discovered near the head Of Poison
Spider creek in Albany county. = OM-